Kavass, Igor I.. (1972) Baltic States. W. S. Hein. “The forcible military occupation and subsequent annexation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union remains to this day (written in 1972) one of the serious unsolved issues of international law”.
Feldbrugge, Ferdinand. (1985) Encyclopedia of Soviet law. BRILL. ISBN 90-247-3075-9. “On March 26, 1949, the US Department of State issued a circular letter stating that the Baltic countries were still independent nations with their own diplomatic representatives and consuls.”.
Lauterpacht, E.. (1967) International Law Reports. Cambridge University Press, p. 62–63. ISBN 0-521-46380-7. “The Court said: (256 N.Y.S.2d 196) "The Government of the United States has never recognized the forceful occupation of Estonia and Latvia by the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics nor does it recognize the absorption and incorporation of Latvia and Estonia into the Union of Soviet Socialist republics. The legality of the acts, laws and decrees of the puppet regimes set up in those countries by the USSR is not recognized by the United States, diplomatic or consular officers are not maintained in either Estonia or Latvia and full recognition is given to the Legations of Estonia and Latvia established and maintained here by the Governments in exile of those countries”.
Combs, Dick. (2008) Inside The Soviet Alternate Universe. Penn State Press, p. 258, 259. ISBN 978-0-271-03355-6. “The Putin administration has stubbornly refused to admit the fact of Soviet occupation of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia following World War II, although Putin has acknowledged that in 1989, during Gorbachev's reign, the Soviet parliament officially denounced the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, which led to the forcible incorporation of the three Baltic states into the Soviet Union.”.
Bugajski, Janusz. (2004) Cold peace. Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 109. ISBN 0-275-98362-5. “Russian officials persistently claim that the Baltic states entered the USSR voluntarily and legally at the close of World War II and failed to acknowledge that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were under Soviet occupation for fifty years.”.
"After the German occupation in 1941–44, Estonia remained occupied by the Soviet Union until the restoration of its independence in 1991." KOLK AND KISLYIY v. ESTONIA (Eŭropa Kortumo pri Homaj Rajtoj 17a de januaro 2006). Teksto
(2003) “State Continuity, Succession and Responsibility: Reparations to the Baltic States and their Peoples?”, Baltic Yearbook of International Law3, p. 165–190. doi:10.1163/221158903x00072.
(1955) “The Soviet Occupation of the Baltic States”, Russian Review14 (1), p. 36–49. doi:10.2307/126075.
Van Elsuwege, Peter. (Aprilo 2004) Russian-speaking minorities in Estonian and Latvia: Problems of integration at the threshold of the European Union. Flensburg Germany: European Centre for Minority Issues. “The forcible incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union in 1940, on the basis of secret protocols to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, is considered to be null and void. Even though the Soviet Union occupied these countries for a period of fifty years, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania continued to exist as subjects of international law.”.
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22 September 1944 from one occupation to another. Estonian Embassy in Washington (2008-09-22). Alirita 2009-05-01. “For Estonia, World War II did not end, de facto, until 31 August 1994, with the final withdrawal of former Soviet troops from Estonian soil.”.
. U.S.-Baltic Relations: Celebrating 85 Years of Friendship (June 14, 2007). Arkivita el la originalo je August 19, 2012. Alirita 2009-04-29. “From Sumner Wells' declaration of July 23, 1940, that we would not recognize the occupation. We housed the exiled Baltic diplomatic delegations. We accredited their diplomats. We flew their flags in the State Department's Hall of Flags. We never recognized in deed or word or symbol the illegal occupation of their lands.”.
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. U.S.-Baltic Relations: Celebrating 85 Years of Friendship (June 14, 2007). Arkivita el la originalo je August 19, 2012. Alirita 2009-04-29. “From Sumner Wells' declaration of July 23, 1940, that we would not recognize the occupation. We housed the exiled Baltic diplomatic delegations. We accredited their diplomats. We flew their flags in the State Department's Hall of Flags. We never recognized in deed or word or symbol the illegal occupation of their lands.”.
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Van Elsuwege, Peter. (Aprilo 2004) Russian-speaking minorities in Estonian and Latvia: Problems of integration at the threshold of the European Union. Flensburg Germany: European Centre for Minority Issues. “The forcible incorporation of the Baltic states into the Soviet Union in 1940, on the basis of secret protocols to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, is considered to be null and void. Even though the Soviet Union occupied these countries for a period of fifty years, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania continued to exist as subjects of international law.”.
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Vidu ekzemple la sintenon esprimitan de la Eŭropa Parlamento, kiu kondamnis "la fakton ke la okupacio de tiu iam sendependaj kaj neŭtralaj ŝtatoj fare de Sovetunio okazis en 1940 laŭ Molotov/Ribbentrop pakto, kaj pluas." (13a de januaro, 1983) “Resolution on the situation in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania”, Official Journal of the European Communities42/78.
